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1.Show HN: Stellar – Git for PostreSQL and MySQL (github.com/fastmonkeys)
325 points by obsession on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
2.Announcing Calibre 2.0 (calibre-ebook.com)
275 points by cleverjake on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 98 comments [ext]
3.Why I'll Never Tell My Son He's Smart (khanacademy.org)
266 points by eroo on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
4. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 219 days ago | hide | 175 comments
4.Hard Science About Diet (wired.com)
209 points by yaddayadda on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 229 comments [ext]
5.Lego Calendar (lego-calendar.com)
204 points by greenburger on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
6.Docker 1.2.0, with restart policies (docker.com)
187 points by julien421 on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
7. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
7.Next-Gen Lighting Is Pushing the Limits of Realism (kotaku.com)
162 points by RaSoJo on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 69 comments [ext]
8.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (stanford.edu)
160 points by shliachtx on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
9.Show HN: ZipLocate, a free API for zip code geolocation (ziplocate.us)
140 points by nathancahill on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
10. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 251 days ago | hide | 128 comments
10.We are being sued for refusing to take down a website (easydns.org)
148 points by peteforde on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
11.Google's fact-checking bots build vast knowledge bank (newscientist.com)
136 points by spountzy on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
12.The Evolution of Roller Coaster Tycoon (1999) (nicscorner.com)
126 points by Snail_Commando on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
13. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
13.Your Anonymous Posts to Secret Aren’t Anonymous After All (wired.com)
139 points by riaface on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
14.Silent Teacher – A game to learn how to code (toxicode.fr)
140 points by komas2006 on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
15.PostgreSQL Workload Analyzer (dalibo.github.io)
113 points by sciurus on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
16. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 18 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
16.D for the Win (tomerfiliba.com)
119 points by ingve on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 102 comments [ext]
17.Pakistan is a FinFisher customer, leak confirms (digitalrightsfoundation.pk)
114 points by rhu86 on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
18.Oregon sues Oracle, claiming fraud over failed Obamacare website (yahoo.com)
112 points by evmar on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
19. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
19.What China wants (economist.com)
118 points by Turukawa on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
20.The Typographic Programming Language (joshondesign.com)
107 points by nickmain on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
21.Layer cam (saladetomateoignon.com)
102 points by hector_minus on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
22. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
22.The legend of John von Neumann (1973) (lk.net)
96 points by tjaerv on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
23.Why I Left the Law (1997) (spectacle.org)
93 points by Zuider on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
24.DeLorean: Using Speculation to Enable Low-Latency Interaction for Cloud Gaming (research.microsoft.com)
87 points by azefiel on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
25. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 368 days ago | hide | 168 comments
25.Show HN: Ξ» Bubble Pop, an educational toy built using Ξ» Lessons (chrisuehlinger.com)
83 points by Uehreka on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
26.Stalin: a global optimizing compiler for Scheme (github.com/barak)
85 points by malisper on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
27.International Lisp Conference 2014 Summary (cipht.net)
75 points by pietrofmaggi on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
28. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
28.Programming Enchiladas: Sort-of gist for ClojureScript, Canvas, SVG experiments (destructuring-bind.org)
68 points by hecubus on Aug 22, 2014 [ext]
29.The Change My Son Brought, Seen Through Personal Data (flowingdata.com)
71 points by susanhi on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
30.Despite FAA Setbacks, Amazon Prime Air Makes Notable Hires (techcrunch.com)
66 points by eplanit on Aug 22, 2014 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
31. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments

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